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Wednesday, May 5 • 10:00 - 11:50
Wednesday Keynote Sessions

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Be sure to join us for Wednesday's keynotes which include:
  • Cloud Native: The Building Blocks for the Human Experience - Priyanka Sharma, General Manager, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (10:00 - 10:15) with special guest Zain Asgar, GVP & Product GM, Pixie @ New Relic & Adjunct Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University
  • 6 End Users and What They Love about Cloud Native - Cheryl Hung, Vice President, Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (10:15-10:35)
  • How Cloud Native Tech Helped Peloton Ride to Exponential Growth - Jim Haughwout, Vice President of Platform, Peloton (10:35-10:50)
  • Sponsored Keynote: Kubernetes as the Control Plane for the Hybrid Cloud - Clayton Coleman, Architect for Kubernetes and OpenShift, Red Hat (10:50-10:55)
  • The CNCF Sandbox: An Exploration and Guided Tour - Justin Cormack, Chief Technology Officer, Docker (10:56-11:11)
  • Keynote: CNCF Project Update: Flux - Stefan Prodan, Developer Experience Engineer, Weaveworks (11:12-11:22)
  • Sponsored Keynote: Commit to the Cause. Push for Change. Take on the World’s Greatest Challenges with Kubernetes - Briana Frank, Director of Product Management, IBM Cloud (11:23-11:28)
  • Predictions from the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) - Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent & Chair, Technical Oversight Committee & Lei Zhang, Staff Engineer, Alibaba Cloud & Member, Technical Oversight Committee (11:29-11:44)
  • Closing Remarks - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 Co-Chairs: Constance Caramanolis, Principal Engineer, Splunk & Stephen Augustus, Head of Open Source, Emerging Technologies & Incubation Division, Cisco (11:45-11:50)

Speakers
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Liz Rice

Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent
Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium project. She was chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of O'Reilly books "Learning eBPF" and... Read More →
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Briana Frank

Director of Product Management, IBM Cloud
Briana Frank is the Director of Product Management at IBM Cloudfocusing on Developer Services. Briana lead the Offering Management and Design team that built the IBM Cloud Kubernetes service in 5 months and now manages 10's of thousands of clusters worldwide. Briana believes in creating... Read More →
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Justin Cormack

Chief Technology Officer, Docker, Inc
Justin is the CTO at Docker, and a member of the CNCF TOC. He has spent a lot of time working on security in the container ecosystem. He is a maintainer on the Notary project for container security.
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Lei Zhang

Partner Software Engineer, Microsoft
Lei is a Partner Software Engineer in Microsoft Azure and was leading the engineering effort in Alibaba including its Kubernetes infrastructure and serverless application platform. Lei has been working as a maintainer on Kubernetes upstream since its beginning.
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Stefan Prodan

Principal Engineer, Weaveworks
Stefan is a Principal Engineer at Weaveworks and an open source contributor to cloud-native projects. He is the creator of Flagger the progressive delivery operator for Kubernetes, and a core maintainer of the CNCF's Flux project. Stefan has over 15 years of experience with software... Read More →
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Cheryl Hung

Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm
Cheryl brings engineers together to build the future of infrastructure, especially cloud native and open source.As Senior Director at Arm, Cheryl leads ecosystem strategy to drive adoption across cloud, 5G and networking. She also founded the Cloud Native London meetup with 8000... Read More →
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Constance Caramanolis

Principal Software Engineer, Splunk
Constance is a principal software engineer at Splunk, formerly Omnition, contributing to OpenTelemetry. Previous to Omnition, she worked at Lyft as part of the data platform and server networking teams. While at Lyft, Constance built, deployed, and configured Envoy internally, and... Read More →
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Priyanka Sharma

Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Priyanka is the Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) which serves as the vendor-neutral home for 100+ of the fastest-growing open source projects, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. She is also a co-creator of the Inclusive Naming Initiative... Read More →
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Stephen Augustus

Head of Open Source, Cisco
Stephen is a Black engineering director and leader in open source communities.He is Cisco’s first Head of Open Source, within the Emerging Technologies & Incubation division.For Kubernetes, he has co-founded transformational elements of the project, including the KEP (Kubernetes Enhancements Proposal) process, the Release Engineering subproject, and Working Group Naming. Stephen has also previously served as a chair for both SIG PM and SIG Azure.He continues his work... Read More →
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Clayton Coleman

Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat, Red Hat
Clayton is a senior distinguished engineer at Red Hat, responsible for consolidating, evolving, and influencing our product strategy and technical direction within Products and Technologies. He has been a key contributor and leader within the application platform area from the early... Read More →
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Zain Asgar

GVP & Product GM - Pixie @ New Relic. Adjunct professor computer science @ Stanford University
Zain Asgar is GM/GVP – Pixie & Open Source – New Relic.Zain is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark before co-founding Pixie. He has a PhD from Stanford and has helped build at-scale data and AI/ML... Read More →
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Jim Haughwout

VP, Platform, Peloton
Jim Haughwout is the Vice President of Platform at Peloton Interactive. He was previously the Head of Infrastructure & Operations at Spotify. Over the past 25 years, he has held leadership roles at the world’s leading companies for defense, internet, media, biotech, streaming audio... Read More →


Wednesday May 5, 2021 10:00 - 11:50 CEST
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